The `Analyst' Controversy

In 1734, the philosopher
George Berkeley
published a pamphlet, The Analyst, which criticised
the foundations of the analysis used in the works of Newton and
others. Many mathematicians published pamphlets in response,
including James Jurin, Jacob Walton and Benjamin Robins. However
the interpretations of the methods of Newton presented in the works
of Robins and Jurin, and the Analyst controversy
accordingly developed into a dispute between these two, conducted
in the pages of The Present State of the Republick of Letters.